Platform technology to generate broadly cross-reactive antibodies to α-helical epitopes in hemagglutinin proteins from influenza A viruses.

abstract：:Optical tweezers are ideally suited to perform force microscopy experiments that isolate a single biomolecule, which then provides multiple binding sites for ligands. The captured complex may be subjected to a spectrum of forces, inhibiting or facilitating ligand activity. In the following experiments, we utilize opti...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： McCauley MJ,Williams MC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor (NSF) is a key protein of intracellular membrane traffic. NSF is a highly conserved protein belonging to the ATPases associated with other activities (AAA+ proteins). AAA+ share common domains and all transduce ATP hydrolysis into major conformational movements that are used to carry ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Ryu JK,Jahn R,Yoon TY

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several new biocompatible and degradable materials were prepared by chemical modification of sodium hyaluronate. The method of activation of hyaluronate by cyanogen bromide was used and subsequent reaction with nucleophile led to the formation of carbamate. This modification of hydroxyl groups of glycosaminoglycans pr...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Mlcochová P,Bystrický S,Steiner B,Machová E,Koós M,Velebný V,Krcmár M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly clear that characterization of the protein ensemble-the collection of all conformations of which the protein is capable-will be a critical step in developing a full understanding of the linkage between structure, dynamics, and function. X-ray solution scattering in the small angle (SAXS) an...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Makowski L,Gore D,Mandava S,Minh D,Park S,Rodi DJ,Fischetti RF

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TC5b is a 20 residue polypeptide notable for its compact tertiary structure, a rarity for a short peptide. This structure is due to the "Trp-cage" motif, an association of aromatic, Pro, and Gly residues. The structure of TC5b has been fully characterized by NMR and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) studies, but has...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Copps J,Murphy RF,Lovas S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spray drying is a way to generate protein solids (powders), which is also true for lyophilization. Sugars are used to protect proteins from conformational changes and chemical degradations arising from drying processes and storage conditions such as the humidity. The influence of trehalose and humidity on the conforma...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： French DL,Arakawa T,Li T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptoids, oligomers of N-substituted glycine, have been valuable targets for study and diverse application as peptidomimetics and as nanomaterials. Their conformational heterogeneity has made the study of peptoid structures using high-resolution analyses challenging, limiting our understanding of the physiochemical fe...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Fuller AA,Seidl FJ,Bruno PA,Plescia MA,Palla KS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiconfiguration thermodynamic integration was used to determine the relative binding strength of tacrine and 6-chlorotacrine by Torpedo californica acetylcholinesterase. 6-Chlorotacrine appears to be bound stronger by 0.7+/-0.4 kcal/mol than unsubstituted tacrine when the active site triad residue His-440 is deprot...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Wlodek ST,Antosiewicz J,McCammon JA,Straatsma TP,Gilson MK,Briggs JM,Humblet C,Sussman JL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protected tripeptide tert-butyloxycarbonyl-L-leucyl-L-aminosuccinyl-L-phenylalaninamide crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with a = 6.214(3), b = 12.832(3), c = 33.094(4) A, Z = 4. The structure was solved by direct methods using MULTAN 80 and refined to an R value of 0.055 for 1458 reflec...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Capasso S,Mazzarella L,Sica F,Zagari A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To validate the existing hypothesis put forward by Navarro et al., we performed single crystal X-ray diffraction structural analysis of a designed model peptide incorporating an unsubstituted achiral γ-aminobutyric acid: Boc-Pro-γ-Abu-OH (1) lacking C-terminal amide group. The analysis established existence of an over...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kumar N,Venugopalan P,Kishore R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin is a four disulfide 25-residue peptide hormone which has a central role in the regulation of iron homeostasis. To support studies on hepcidin we have sought to establish reliable and robust synthetic methods for the preparation of correctly folded materials. While correctly-folded hepcidin has good aqueous so...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Zhang J,Diamond S,Arvedson T,Sasu BJ,Miranda LP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four members of the carcinoembryonic antigen family, CEACAMs 1, 3, 6, and 8, are expressed on human neutrophils and can trigger an activation signal that increases neutrophil adhesion to human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) monolayers. To identify active sites on CEACAM1, we previously performed molecular mod...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Skubitz KM,Skubitz AP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New optical nanoresonance effects enabled us to study the effect of ions on nanometric carbohydrate thin layers on chips. Immobilization was done via spin coating of the derivatized carbohydrate polymer at a metallized chip surface forming ultrathin films (about 50-300 nm thick) followed by photochemical cross-linking...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Palkovits R,Mayer C,Bauer G,Winkler H,Pittner F,Schalkhammer T

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid state nmr methods were applied to the study of the motions and structural heterogeneity in polyglycine, sodium poly(L-glutamate), and poly(L-alanine). The response of both the main-chain and side-chain resonances to the addition of water was studied using static and magic-angle sample-spinning line shapes as wel...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kennedy SD,Bryant RG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray diffraction analysis of a stereocontrolled heterochiral designed model peptide Boc-(D) Pro-Thr-OMe (1) revealed the existence of an unusual folded molecular structure, stabilized via an effective unconventional C---H…O type intramolecular hydrogen-bond, encompassing a noncovalent 12-membered ring-motif. Toge...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Bhadbhade MM,Kishore R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small disulfide-rich peptides are translated as larger precursors typically containing an N-terminal prepro sequence. In this study, we investigated the role of a propeptide in the oxidative folding of an extremely hydrophobic delta-conotoxin, PVIA. delta-Conotoxin PVIA (delta-PVIA) is a 29-amino acid neurotoxin stabi...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Buczek P,Buczek O,Bulaj G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleolar targeting peptides (NrTPs) are a family of cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) derived from crotamine, a rattlesnake venom toxin. They were named NrTPs for their remarkable nucleolus-homing properties and have been studied for their potential as drug delivery vehicles. Live cell microscopy experiments were cond...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rodrigues M,Andreu D,Santos NC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of starch was studied using small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS). The scattering data was modeled by considering a finite stack of alternating lamellae that are allowed to fluctuate both along the layer repeat direction and along the transverse layer direction. Analysis in this way of the SAXS data from s...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Daniels DR,Donald AM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently understood function for Ras in signal transduction is in mediating the transmission of signals from external growth factors to the cell nucleus. Mutated forms of this GTP-binding protein are found in 30% of human cancers with particularly high prevalence in colon and pancreatic carcinomas. These mutation...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Qian Y,Sebti SM,Hamilton AD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the positive results observed in vitro and in vivo, clinical trials with bioactive peptides are generally hampered by their fast degradation in the biological system. Two bioactive peptides, P20 (CSSRTMHHC) and the combined peptide C (CVNHPAFACGYGHTMYYHHYQHHL) have been identified as anticancer therapeutics. C...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Arruda DC,de Oliveira TD,Cursino PHF,Maia VSC,Berzaghi R,Travassos LR,Tada DB

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein flexibility and conformational diversity is well known to be a key characteristic of the function of many proteins. Human blood coagulation proteins have multiple substrates, and various protein-protein interactions are required for the smooth functioning of the coagulation cascade to maintain blood hemostasis...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Singh N,Briggs JM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the neighbor exclusion model and some of its applications to analyze the binding data of DNA-ligand complexes. We revisit the closed form of the model developed by McGhee and von Hippel in 1974, showing that this classic model can be used to help studying the behavior of DNA contour and persistence lengths w...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rocha MS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many anticancer drugs exert their biological activity by forming DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs), the thermodynamics of biologically relevant long crosslinked DNAs has not been intensively studied in contrast to short duplexes. Here, we carry out computer modeling of the shift of melting temperature of long...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chang CL,Lando DY,Fridman AS,Hu CK

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium ions (Ca(2+) ) play key roles in various fundamental biological processes such as cell signaling and brain function. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used to study such interactions, however, the accuracy of the Ca(2+) models provided by the standard MD force fields has not been rigorously tested....

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Yoo J,Wilson J,Aksimentiev A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for determining the concentrations of peptides and proteins having isodichroic points near 203 nm. The existence of an isodichroic point for a given substance indicates a local two-state (alpha-helix, random coil) population. The mean residue ellipticity at the isodichroic point, [theta lambda i]...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Holtzer ME,Holtzer A

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical characteristics of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), including the thermodynamic properties (entropy, enthalpy, Gibbs' free energy, heat capacity), normal mode vibrations, and atomic fluctuations, were investigated. The Gaussian 03 computational chemistry program was employed for normal mode ana...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Krasnenko V,Tkaczyk AH,Tkaczyk ER,Farkas O,Mauring K

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The various motifs of RNA molecules are closely related to their structural and functional properties. To better understand the nature and distributions of such structural motifs (i.e., paired and unpaired bases in stems, junctions, hairpin loops, bulges, and internal loops) and uncover characteristic features, we ana...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Zorn J,Gan HH,Shiffeldrim N,Schlick T

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the use of a new Monte Carlo (MC) chain generation algorithm, introduced by T. Garel and H. Orland [(1990) Journal of Physics A, Vol. 23, pp. L621-L626], for examining the thermodynamics of protein folding transitions and for generating candidate C(alpha) backbone structures as starting points for a de...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Solomon JE,Liney D

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular dichroic spectra and oscillator strengths of the π-π transition near 190 nm are calculated for helical (Gly)6 and (Ala)6 at 30° intervals of the backbone torsion angles (ϕ,ψ) over the range -180° ≤ ϕ ≤ -60°, -60° ≤ ψ ≤ 180°, using the partially dispersive normal mode treatment of the dipole interaction model....

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Applequist J

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a bacterial cell wall may alter during bacterial reproduction. Moreover, these cell wall variations, on a nanoscale resolution, have not yet fully been elucidated. In this work, Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique are applied to evaluate the culture time-dependent cell wall ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： McEwen GD,Wu Y,Zhou A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00